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原文出处∶ Chicken Soup for the Canadian Soul 【2012】David's Run 原文再现∶ It was the day of the big cross-country run. Students from seven different elementary schools in and around the small town of 100-Mile House, British Columbia, were warming up and walking the route through thick evergreen forest. In the five years I had been teaching at Horse Lake Elementary School, I had come to respect the tough pioneer spirit of the local people. Named for its location 100 miles from Lillooet, (mile zero on the old Cariboo Gold Rush Trail), and dotted with active cattle ranches, 100-Mile House sometimes seemed like a place out of time, with its horses, cowboys and cattle drives.At an elevation of 930 metres,100-Mile House is a community in which spring comes late, snow comes early and winter sports are a local passion. It was now late May and the ground had only just dried enough from the melting snow to hold the race. I looked around and finally spotted David,standing by himself off to the side by a fence.He was small for ten years old, with freckles and unruly red hair. But his usual big toothy grin was absent today.I walked over and asked him why he wasn't with the other children. The only response he gave me was he had decided not to run. What was wrong He had worked so hard for this event! I quickly searched the crowd for the school's physical education teacher and asked him what had happened."I was worried the other kids would laugh at him,"he explained uncomfortably."I thought there might be a fight if our kids tried to defend him.I gave him the choice to run or not,and let him decide." I bit back my frustration. I knew the coach meant well and sincerely thought he was doing the right thing. After being assured David could run if he wanted, I turned to find him coming towards me, his small body rocking from side to side as he swung his feet forward, awkwardly walking on his t0es. David's cerebral palsy prevented him from walking or running like other children, but at school his peers thought of him as a regular kid. He always participated to the best of his ability in whatever they were doing. Which is why none of the children thought it unusual that David had decided to join the cross-country team. It just took him longer, that's all. David had not missed a single practice, and although he always finished his run long after the other children—he did always finish. He had stubbornly run a total of twenty-three kilometres in practice runs to prepare for that day'stwo-and-a-half-kilometre(1.5-mile)run, and he had asked me to come and watch. As a special education teacher at the school, I was familiar with the challenges David faced and was proud of his dogged determination. We sat down together on some steps, but David wouldn't look at me. I quietly said, "David, if you don't want to run today,no one is going to make you. But if you're not running because you're afraid someone is going to laugh, that's not a good enough reason. There will always ... ...